Zune Alarm Clock v2.0 (Countdown Timer, Sleep Timer, Playlists!)

[Huntsman85]

Check out Version 1.1. Customizable Background Images and Font Text Color. Adding a Sleep Timer and Count Down Alarm is the set priority for version 1.2. Please let me know of any ideas you have for version 1.3!

[Tobososlow]

Nice work.

[Rockman87]

I'm glad to see your adding a sleep timer... this will make this app the best. I thought of one thing that needs to be done. You need an option to set the volume for the alarm and set an option for the volume of the sleep timer, because when I go to bed I want the music quite... when I wake up I want it loud.... You are doing so much...probably didn't think of this. Thanks

[Hawthorne]

How about setting the alarm clock/sleep times or whatever to tune in to a radiostation? If that's a possibility.

Also, some way to further customize the experience, put in an own design or something...

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by Hawthorne

How about setting the alarm clock/sleep times or whatever to tune in to a radiostation? If that's a possibility.

Also, some way to further customize the experience, put in an own design or something...

There is no radio access with XNA

[Hawthorne]

Mhh, bummer, well then, the only other thing I can think of, is setting the Alarm clock to play a video file, some people would like waking up to their favorite song and actually seeing it play on their Zune

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by Hawthorne

Mhh, bummer, well then, the only other thing I can think of, is setting the Alarm clock to play a video file, some people would like waking up to their favorite song and actually seeing it play on their Zune

Sorry, no video access either lol. Pictures and music only

[Hawthorne]

Okay, I feel fresh out of ideas on that point of the program.

How about the encoding of text? Is it a possibility for me to translate the program into let's say Bulgarian, Russian or some other language in Cyrillic?

[BurlySkink]

Originally Posted by LedZepp

There is no radio access with XNA

I just realized this would be a cool feature for xna to have,not needed, but cool.
Im going to go suggest it

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by Hawthorne

Okay, I feel fresh out of ideas on that point of the program.

How about the encoding of text? Is it a possibility for me to translate the program into let's say Bulgarian, Russian or some other language in Cyrillic?

You can but you need to know the ASCII codes for those languages, then just open up the spritefont file inside the game project, and then change these lines:
<Start>"&#""32;"</Start>
<End>"&#""126;"</End>
(remove the " from both, i had to put them in otherwise the browser parses them as ascii codes and outputs the letters)
to reflect the new ascii codes(keep the &# in though)

I just realized this would be a cool feature for xna to have,not needed, but cool.
Im going to go suggest it

I believe its already been suggested, so search before adding a new one(on the xna website i mean)

[Rockman87]

radio is possible for the sleep part of the app as long as people start the radio before they enter the app.

[ShotgunSnipist]

Originally Posted by Rockman87

radio is possible for the sleep part of the app as long as people start the radio before they enter the app.

Really? Nice find.

Unfortunately (In Boulder, Colorado at least) radio reception is not real great. =/

[Hawthorne]

Originally Posted by LedZepp

You can but you need to know the ASCII codes for those languages, then just open up the spritefont file inside the game project, and then change these lines:
<Start>"&#""32;"</Start>
<End>"&#""126;"</End>
(remove the " from both, i had to put them in otherwise the browser parses them as ascii codes and outputs the letters)
to reflect the new ascii codes(keep the &# in though)

Hmm, shouldn't the ASCII codes be universal, at least for the cyrillic alphabet, I mean Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and others languages are all written in Cyrillic, so shouldn't the codes be for the alphabet, and not the language?

If so, my suggestion is that any game being created t the moment or already done, should have an option to be translated, personally I'm ready & willing to translate all of them, but I'm not that good at coding, to say actually I learned Borland C++ a long time ago, so if you could help me out I'd be thankful.

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by Hawthorne

Hmm, shouldn't the ASCII codes be universal, at least for the cyrillic alphabet, I mean Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and others languages are all written in Cyrillic, so shouldn't the codes be for the alphabet, and not the language?

If so, my suggestion is that any game being created t the moment or already done, should have an option to be translated, personally I'm ready & willing to translate all of them, but I'm not that good at coding, to say actually I learned Borland C++ a long time ago, so if you could help me out I'd be thankful.

Czech, Slovak, and Slovenian | French | German | Greek | Hawaiian | Italian | Polish | Romanian | Russian (Cyrillic) | Spanish | Turkish |

Go down the page a bit get the first Numerical Code and the last, then replace it like i said

[Huntsman85]

Originally Posted by Rockman87

I'm glad to see your adding a sleep timer... this will make this app the best. I thought of one thing that needs to be done. You need an option to set the volume for the alarm and set an option for the volume of the sleep timer, because when I go to bed I want the music quite... when I wake up I want it loud.... You are doing so much...probably didn't think of this. Thanks

When the sleep timer is added, I will add a second volume control for all alarms. The master volume will be the one that you set to listen to songs until you sleep and the Alarm Volume will be for when alarms go off.

I will also build in the option of letting you shut off the zune (Exit App) when the countdown timer goes off, for people who just want to sleep.

[Rockman87]

Originally Posted by Huntsman85

I will also build in the option of letting you shut off the zune (Exit App) when the countdown timer goes off, for people who just want to sleep.

Very nice... I never thought of that.

[the_guillotine]

The new version is excellence.

Thanks alot.

[Bobby462]

This is my favorite Zune Application so far. Very nice job! If it were possible to make a sleep timer to listen to music while falling asleep and a sleep timer to sleep longer after the alarm goes off I would take my current alarm clock and throw it in the trash!!!

[MehStrongBadMeh]

Huntsman, Good Job on the Zune Alarm Clock.

I just finished this Game Thumbnail that you can use for the clock.



I created everything myself except for the Zune Logo.
Tell me if you like it or if you want me to make some changes to it.

You can use the thumbnail for 0 $zB (exact change only).

[Rockman87]

I like the thumbnail... nicely done, very creative